Pascal Quotes

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.